Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Nov. 1, (Music) page 21, it is stated that in San Francisco "the orchestra under Hertz direction played Respighi's 'Pines of Rome,' introducing in a symphony orchestra for the first time, so far as is known, a phonographic record of a nightingale's song...
Urbane, precise, conservative, rather than dapper; tolerant, rather than genial; exhibiting button shoes, a cold eye, grey hair and long fingers, Henry E. Huntington goes on buying things. At San Marino he breakfasts at seven and reads for an hour, turning the pages carefully. When he is in Los Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things...
...San Francisco, the Symphony there broadcast for the first time. It was an experiment, Conductor Alfred Hertz had announced; he demanded a guarantee fund of $25,000 to see it through. Came the Sunday concert, and radio fans, thousands of them, stopped their Sunday putterings to listen in, voted the experiment a success. Managers scouting around the darkened Curran Theatre, saw great patches of vacant seats, thought differently, gave thanks to the few loyal subscribers and the Standard Oil Co., who had furnished the guarantee...
Hospital attendants in San Antonio, Tex., smiled pityingly at an elderly gentleman whose two broken ribs and fractured collarbone they were plastering last week. He had been run down by a motorcycle -another one of these dizzy old jaywalkers, they supposed. But when they finished their ministrations, the hospital folk had a shock. The patient felt his casts, winced a bit, straightened his good shoulder and announced that he would leave town at once as he had entered it, by airplane. He was on his way from Los Angeles to Mitchell Field, N. Y., and could not delay longer...
...Grace, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Edward J. Hanna (Roman Catholic), was host recently at a luncheon held in a San Francisco convent, to Protestant and Jewish leaders of the city, on behalf of the city's Community Chest. Prominent religious leaders present included Rabbi Jacob Nieto, Bishop Edward L. Parsons of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of the Methodist Church and Chester Rowell, California progressive, former publisher of the Fresno (Calif.) Republican, all of whom spoke...